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Flights of fancy

From
Larry Stoter

Should personal air vehicles ever become anything more than a rich person’s toy (25 October, p 19), which I very much doubt, I do not understand why anybody would claim them as a solution to road congestion, except to sell the idea to government.

As road building in the UK demonstrates, increased capacity only relieves congestion in the short term. Having spent millions widening the motorway orbiting London to eight lanes and more, the level of congestion is again back where it was at six lanes.Stotfold, Bedfordshire, UK